Business Cards allows you to display other businesses on a web page on your site which visitors can search on. A practical use would be to advertise your resellers, approved suppliers, partners etc. In Site Setup you can determine whether you display their full contact or abbreviated details (via Show Business Card contact info) and allow them to change their own details (via Allow users to add/edit Business Card info).
Setting Up Business Cards
1. Go to Manage Business Cards
2. Set up Business Priority Types
This is used when the business cards are listed on the site so they are ordered by priority. You can set a CSS class to style the different priorities to make them stand out differently (requires CSS knowledge).
3. Set up Business Category Types
These are the types of business categories on which visitors can search on the web page. For example, you could set Region as a business category type to enable searches to be localised. A second category could be Speciality for example. The search area would list both types as separate drop down menus and lookup business cards which satisfy both of the selected criteria.
4. Set up Business Categories
These are the fields which populate the Business Category Type drop downs. So for example, you would enter a list of towns associated to the Region type and a list of the business' key differentiators for the Speciality type.
5. Set up Business Page Types
Each business card can have a small number of tabbed sections (1 - 5 recommended) which give extra information about the business. This could include an About tab, Opening Hours, Delivery Times and so on. These appear alongside the business card details in the modal popup when you click on the business name.
6. Add A Business Card
Add the actual business card and complete the details for all of the fields you wish to populate. Remember you can decide to turn off contact details via SIte Setup as described above.
Displaying Business Cards On A Web Page
Go to Page Manager, set up and/or edit the page on which you want business cards to appear using the Business card List Main Body App.
Visitors can search on the Business category types and a pop up modal window will appear when the business name is clicked.